Good Shepherd Catholic Church joins 20 couples in marriage on Vals day.

Twenty couples have been joined together in Holy Matrimony at the Good Shepherd Catholic Church yesterday in Tema-community two.

The ceremony forms part of activities marking the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Church.

The purpose of the mass wedding is to give parishioners who wish to bless their marriages the opportunity to do so to make them eligible communicants and active members of the Church. It is also to reduce the financial burden on couples who bless their marriages individually by providing them certain resources needed for the ceremony.

In a sermon, the Vicar General of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra, Very Rev. Fr. Francis Adoboli urged the couples to avoid infidelity, financial quarrels, abuse and selfish demands. Stating that these are the things most likely to cause havoc to their marriages.

“Today’s ceremony is not an end in itself but the beginning of greater things to come including challenges. It should never be said of you that after this ceremony you are seeing some other person aside your wife or husband. No! Never! It must not be you," Very Rev. Fr. Francis Adoboli said.

"And that is the more reason you should always make an evaluation of your lives. Ask yourselves, we married on the 14th of February, are we doing the right thing? Man, ask your wife and wife should also ask her husband. If you are able to answer yes sincerely, then you are on the right path," Fr. Francis added.

In a letter read on her behalf, the Member of Parliament for Tema-West Honorable Irene Naa Toshie Addo extended her goodwill to the couples and church community.